Data · dataset · 2026
The METCRAX II Field Experiment: A study of downslope windstorm-type flows in Arizona's Meteor Crater
Listed in National Center for Atmospheric Research
The second Meteor Crater Experiment (METCRAX II) was conducted in October 2013 at Arizona's Meteor Crater.
Description
The experiment was designed to investigate nighttime downslope windstorm-type flows that form regularly above the inner southwest sidewall of the 1.2-km diameter crater as a southwesterly mesoscale katabatic flow cascades over the crater rim. The objective of METCRAX II is to determine the causes of these strong, intermittent, and turbulent inflows that bring warm-air intrusions into the southwest part of the crater.
This article provides an overview of the scientific goals of the experiment; summarizes the measurements, the crater topography, and the synoptic meteorology of the study period; and presents initial analysis results.
Links
Get the data
- Publisher page n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7f47qq9 ↗
documentation · download · from data ucar edu
Where it is published
- data.ucar.edu /dataset/the-metcrax-ii-field-experiment-a-study-of-downslope-w… ↗
National Center for Atmospheric Research dataset page
landing page · from data ucar edu
Catalogue records · 1
- CKAN API data.ucar.edu/api/3/action/package_show?id=f21ed1ab-bddd-4fef-b7ce-f649bdf4a… ↗
metadata API · from data ucar edu
Topics
- From keywords
- Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science
Provenance · 1 source records, 7 field assertions
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| National Center for Atmospheric Research | f21ed1ab-bddd-4fef-b7ce-f649bdf4a1f5 | 11 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | /notes |
| publication_date | source · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | /title |
| updated_date | source · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 |